I got nothing to hide. I don't do anything illegal with bitcoin. They watch everything anyway. If they want to know what kind of porn I watch I can save them the trouble. Lesbians.
They don't give a crap about porn unless you do kiddie and you have assets to seize. It's assets, assets, assets.
I'm sure there are many departments that are monitoring this forum, reddit, and other bitcoin related activites as well. Some of those departments might communicate with others, some may not. While the NSA, CIA, and FBI did not feel a need to get involved directly in your case, they very well may be monitoring things.
There was quite a lot of paperwork involved in getting the warrant to put the tracker on my car. I expect there is even more paperwork to bring in something from the NSA or CIA into a case like mine and they get almost everything they need directly from the companies under their thumb with a lot less paperwork. For example, my cell phone carrier (Sprint, but that does not matter they will all do it) coughed up every phone number in and out of my phone and every text sent and received
even the texts that I deleted. So I expect that unless there is a very good reason they don't bother with the extra effort needed to bring in the recordings we all know they keep of every phone conversation etc.
Glad to see you back, and it's nice to hear some seemingly high quality info as a debrief.
I figure that 'parallel construction' is a tool which is used more often than some might think, but even that has to be a serious hassle and fraught with risk so it's probably used less often than others think.
In other news, my dear old friend cypherdoc seems to have gone dark, at least here on trolltalk. Do you suppose he retained the same attorney who provided you with what sounds it was probably sage advice about keeping one's mouth shut? That's got to be a tough row to hoe for a guy like Dr. Lowelife.